OXYGEN ( Romania 2010), the second medium length of ADINA PINTILIE (cinematographer MARIUS IACOB; editor/sound designer TUDOR PETRE), produced by FILMEX ROMANIA, MANEKINO FILM and CINEMA STUDIO OF ROMANIAN MINISTRY OF CULTURE will be world premiered in TIGER AWARD SHORT FILM COMPETITION of ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2010 (27th of January to 7th of February).
Screening schedule:
Friday 29 January 19:30 Pathe 2
Saturday 30 January 11:45 Lantaren 1
Now at its 39th edition, the International Film Festival Rotterdam is considered one of the top five European film festivals, alongside Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Locarno. Its main focus is the discovery and the active support of new talented filmmakers from around the globe. IFFR offers to its public and professional audiences ( over 3.000 press and film industry representatives) a quality selection of worldwide independent, innovative and experimental cinema as well as film-related visual arts exhibitions and live performances.
SYNOPSIS
During the communist dictatorship in Romania (1945-1989), thousands of people risked their lives in the attempt to run away from the country. Despair made them invent the most incredible methods to cross the border illegally. Some of them managed to escape, but many lost their lives in these attempts.
OXYGEN is inspired by such a real case: a man who tried to cross the Danube illegally using an oxygen cylinder.
Yet, the facts are reinterpreted in a highly subjective vision. Blending beautifully shot fiction and strange archive footage, in visuals and sounds of haunting quality, the film depicts an emotional landscape, a man’s inner journey towards a healing hereafter.
CREATIVE TEAM
Cast: Cezar Antal
Adriana Mocca
Gabriel Spahiu
Rudy Rosenfeld
Cinematographer: Marius Iacob
Editor/Sound designer: Tudor Petre
Set/Costume designer: Andrada Chiriac
Director/Scriptwriter: Adina Pintilie
Music: Cristi Lolea/ Marius Galea
Producator: Constantin Popescu
ADINA PINTILIE, born in 1980, has recently graduated the National University of Drama and Film Bucharest, Romania.
Still as student, she made her first medium length DON’T GET ME WRONG (produced by ARISTOTELES WORKSHOP,with support of ARTE & ROMANIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION), world premiered in LOCARNO 2007 – Filmmakers of the Present Competition, included in IDFA 2007 – BEST OF FESTS selection, awarded GOLDEN DOVE BEST DOCUMENTARY AWARD at DOK LEIPZIG 2007, BEST WOMAN DIRECTOR AWARD at FICCO MEXICO 2008 and selected/awarded in 50 international film festivals like: THESSALONIKI, MONTPELLIER, TRIESTE, NAMUR, DOCUMENTA MADRID, MUNCHEN, MOSCOW,SARAJEVO, SOUTH BY SOUTH EAST, FULL FRAME USA, INDIELISBOA, WARSZAW, KRAKOW etc.
ADINA PINTILIE also made 6 short films that had been screened/ awarded in a large number of film festivals, both national and international. Her last short, SANDPIT#186, was premiered in LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008, AUTHOR’S SHORTS section and won the RUNNER UP AWARD in MIAMI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 and SPECIAL MENTION in TRIESTE ALPE ADRIA 2009.
